Do Telstra’s call centre cuts add up? |
- Do Telstra’s call centre cuts add up?
- Dell quarterly revenues down 8% on poor desktop performance
- Google launches Octane JavaScript benchmark suite
- RIM reshuffles UK and European team ahead of new OS
- Sony PlayStation Vita sales crawl
- Drilling into Amazon's tape-killing Glacier cloud archive
- Creepy skull find proves Man penetrated Asia 60,000 years ago
- Merde! French Prez palace blueprints nicked from cable layer
- Huawei: Half a million IOPS? Pah, we can do better
- QLogic to launch Transformers-style adapter cards: They're also flash caches
- SimpliVity: Your legacy IT stack sucks, wanna switch it for our box?
- Samsung spends $4bn tarting up Texas factory
- McAfee puts Barnaby Jack on car-jacking hackers' case
- Cloud engineering could SAVE HUMANITY, suggests boffin
- Amazon tries to freeze out tape with cheap 'n' cloudy Glacier
- PayPal co-founder sells out of foundering Facebook at VAST profit
- Dell speeds EqualLogic arrays: Stuff spindles, let's add some flash
- Ageing star sucked retinue member to death, evidence indicates
- UK watchdog snaps on glove to probe Tesco's 'security fails'
- Morning stampede of workers lulled by 'new' virty shiny box
- Apple, Samsung brass hats' patent spat chitchat falls flat
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6
- ICO has yet to begin probing cookie violators
- PayPal drops into McDonalds, begs meat-guzzlers to give it a bonk
- Everything Everywhere bags 4G monopoly in UK - for now
- North Tyneside: Mega-outsourcing deal will SAVE jobs
- NetApp: Flash as a STORAGE tier? You must be joking
- Netflix puts end to fumbling, penetrates Scandinavia
- 'SEX and the FEMALE BRAIN are CONNECTED' - shock discovery
- Darksiders II
- News Ltd's Australian chief demands copyright overhaul
- Sharp to shunt two telly factories
- India shutters sites and social media accounts
- Facebook sued by Chinese firm over Timeline
- Work for the military? Don't be evil, says ethicist
- The cooler side of the Big Bang
- Apple now most valuable company OF ALL TIME
- NASA gets funding for Mars InSight mission in 2016
- Melb IT tells ICANN to clear up its clearinghouse act
- SHOCK: Brainwave readers work as advertised
| Do Telstra’s call centre cuts add up? Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT Analyst says web self-service doesn't always mean fewer callsTelstra has announced it will close call centres in Lismore and downsize another in Townsville, and cut other jobs around the nation.… |
| Dell quarterly revenues down 8% on poor desktop performance Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:43 PM PDT Market share crashing in fastest-growing zonesWall Street analysts were expecting a drop off in Dell's business and they won't be disappointed, with the company reporting revenues down 8 per cent for the second quarter of the year.… |
| Google launches Octane JavaScript benchmark suite Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:02 PM PDT Shocker: Chrome leads the the pack in new testsAlways in search of new ways to show off the work they've done to improve performance of the Chrome browser, Google's Chrome team has unveiled a new JavaScript benchmark suite, called Octane.… |
| RIM reshuffles UK and European team ahead of new OS Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:37 AM PDT Could lose government monopoly positionRIM is reshuffling its European management team ahead of the launch of BlackBerry 10, with a new UK boss and the creation of a new, EU-wide managing director.… |
| Sony PlayStation Vita sales crawl Posted: 21 Aug 2012 09:15 AM PDT Don't wanna hold your handheldSony has suffered significantly disappointing sales of its PlayStation Vita since launch, flogging a mere 2.2m units, a third of the number Nintendo's 3DS achieved at the same point in its lifecycle.… |
| Drilling into Amazon's tape-killing Glacier cloud archive Posted: 21 Aug 2012 09:09 AM PDT It could devastate the industryBlocks and Files Amazon Glacier is a series of cloud vaults holding customer archive data that isn't based on tape libraries. Instead it appears to use object storage and is set to be the largest object storage implementation in history in a very short time.… |
| Creepy skull find proves Man penetrated Asia 60,000 years ago Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:31 AM PDT Modern humans invaded continent earlier than thoughtPic Bone-bothering boffins have stumbled across an ancient skull in a Laos cave that puts modern human migration through Southeast Asia 20,000 years sooner than previously thought.… |
| Merde! French Prez palace blueprints nicked from cable layer Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:00 AM PDT USB stick held sensitive govt building plansAn unlucky cable worker lost the ground plans for France's most important government buildings when his USB stick was nicked.… |
| Huawei: Half a million IOPS? Pah, we can do better Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:28 AM PDT SPC-1 speedster now fastest ever all-flash arrayHuawei has captured the SPC-1 crown for disk drive and flash arrays with a 600,000-plus IOPS result for its Dorado5100 all-flash array.… |
| QLogic to launch Transformers-style adapter cards: They're also flash caches Posted: 21 Aug 2012 07:01 AM PDT Robot-car-plane-style tech promises more virtual machines, faster applicationsQLogic is adding flash storage to its server adapter cards so they become PCIe-connected flash caches, speeding up SAN I/O-bound applications in the servers with read I/O acceleration.… |
| SimpliVity: Your legacy IT stack sucks, wanna switch it for our box? Posted: 21 Aug 2012 06:42 AM PDT Migrating from the mess is good, but can Kempel pull it off?What would you say about a start-up that wants to junk all the complex, multi-layered stack clutter of today's data centres and start again with one basic scale-out OmniCube building block. Nuts right? Only it's Doron Kempel and he co-founded and sold Diligent to IBM for $200m in 2008 – so we're paying attention.… |
| Samsung spends $4bn tarting up Texas factory Posted: 21 Aug 2012 06:18 AM PDT Austin plant to spit out extra-large orders of chipsSamsung has said it will invest around $4bn to renovate its US chip factory so it can increase production of the semiconductors used in smartphones and tablets.… |
| McAfee puts Barnaby Jack on car-jacking hackers' case Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:38 AM PDT No one's tried to hack a vehicle's system yetMcAfee has put together an elite team of researchers to investigate how to go about protecting car systems from next-generation hacking attacks.… |
| Cloud engineering could SAVE HUMANITY, suggests boffin Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:08 AM PDT Actual clouds in the sky, not IT ones, sorryExperiments should be carried out into creating artificial clouds to fight global warming, scientists have argued. Clouds generated by special ships at sea would reflect solar heat back into space, so serving to cool the planet.… |
| Amazon tries to freeze out tape with cheap 'n' cloudy Glacier Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:01 AM PDT Cloud giant rolls over earthly archivesAmazon is digging deeper into the enterprise with a data back-up and archival service designed to help kill off tape.… |
| PayPal co-founder sells out of foundering Facebook at VAST profit Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:42 AM PDT Thiel leaps overboard, squeaking and lashing tailOne of Facebook's earliest investors has sold around $400m worth of shares in the company – which has seen its value halved since going public in May this year.… |
| Dell speeds EqualLogic arrays: Stuff spindles, let's add some flash Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:29 AM PDT Flash-enhanced storage up against Tintri, Nimble DataSpindles are clearly not speedy enough, as Dell is adding flash to two mid-range EqualLogic arrays to speed up VDI, data warehousing and OLTP data access.… |
| Ageing star sucked retinue member to death, evidence indicates Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:12 AM PDT Engorged with telltale chemical after swallowingAstroboffins have spotted the first evidence of a happily digesting red giant star that recently devoured one of its planets, one of the many apocalyptic fates that could happen here on Earth.… |
| UK watchdog snaps on glove to probe Tesco's 'security fails' Posted: 21 Aug 2012 04:03 AM PDT Every little helps, starting with hash("sha256", ...)The UK's privacy watchdog has opened a tentative probe into the alleged security shortcomings of Tesco's website.… |
| Morning stampede of workers lulled by 'new' virty shiny box Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:41 AM PDT GreenBytes waves wand, turns flash array into cloudy kitGreenBytes has turned its Solidarity flash array into what it's called an IO Offload Engine: a bit of gear purpose-built for weathering storms on storage networks caused by thousands of virtual desktops booting up and such like. Sitting in front of a storage array, taking care of the heavy IO lifting, it is sold to service providers in a pay-per-use scheme.… |
| Apple, Samsung brass hats' patent spat chitchat falls flat Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:19 AM PDT Cook and Kwon agree to disagree, place fate in jury's handsApple and Samsung's chief execs have discussed their US patent trial but they weren't able to sort out their differences, a lawyer for the South Korean chaebol said yesterday.… |
| How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love IPv6 Posted: 21 Aug 2012 03:01 AM PDT You make my heart go PingStob IPv4 addresses are a rapidly dwindling commodity [...] ICANN distributed the last big chunks of available IPv4 addresses to the five continental Regional Internet Registries earlier this year. The RIRs in turn are running out of supplies to allocate to ISPs and other network operators - El Reg… |
| ICO has yet to begin probing cookie violators Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:39 AM PDT FOI request reveals privacy watchdog still not ready to deal with complaintsThe Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has yet to begin investigating websites accused of breaking the new cookie laws, which came into force last year, because it does not yet have an investigative team in place.… |
| PayPal drops into McDonalds, begs meat-guzzlers to give it a bonk Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:17 AM PDT Would you like NFC with that?Thirty McDonalds outlets* in France will be accepting PayPal, using the eBay-owned processor's mobile client, as companies race to become the default mobile payment platform whether customers want it or not.… |
| Everything Everywhere bags 4G monopoly in UK - for now Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:00 AM PDT Competition? What competition?Everything Everywhere, the UK's largest mobile operator, will get a monopoly on 4G services in the UK, starting on 11 September and lasting at least until next year's spectrum mega-auction.… |
| North Tyneside: Mega-outsourcing deal will SAVE jobs Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:38 AM PDT No reallyNorth Tyneside council is to outsource all its ICT services, along with finance, procurement, revenues and benefits, customer services and human resources to mega-services provider Balfour Beatty.… |
| NetApp: Flash as a STORAGE tier? You must be joking Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:17 AM PDT Reselling Fusion-io hardwareCompleting its array-to-the-server flash vision, NetApp is rolling out server flash caching software, reselling Fusion-io server flash cards, and validating seven third-party server flash products with its ONTAP arrays.… |
| Netflix puts end to fumbling, penetrates Scandinavia Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:59 AM PDT Actually working in its own interest for a changeFor the first time in a while Netflix has said something that has not crashed its share price, and has lifted it instead: it plans to launch its online movie service in the fourth quarter in the four countries of Scandinavia – Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. It confirmed that the cost of doing so will mean that it makes a small loss for the fourth quarter. Once again the offering will include both local and global content offerings.… |
| 'SEX and the FEMALE BRAIN are CONNECTED' - shock discovery Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:28 AM PDT Sperm chemical, NOT cars or money, rules ladies' hormonesIn a discovery sure to stir intense discussion, scientists in Canada say they have discovered a powerful chemical signal embedded in semen which acts directly upon the brains of female mammals - apparently including humans.… |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT Cower, brief mortalsReview Typically, the only death I have any time for in my life is Terry Prachett's characterisation of Death and his constant fascination with humanity's foibles. Unsurprisingly, the Death of Darksiders II is a different incarnation altogether, a less bleak and more blood thirsty kinda guy.… |
| News Ltd's Australian chief demands copyright overhaul Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:12 PM PDT Wants anti-piracy role for National Broadband NetworkThe head of News Ltd's Australian outpost has urged for an overhaul of copyright laws to take on the "copyright kleptomaniacs" and "digital suckers" that are robbing the Australian economy of AUD$1.37 billion annually in pirated film and TV content.… |
| Sharp to shunt two telly factories Posted: 20 Aug 2012 10:03 PM PDT 3,000 more jobs could be axedAiling Japanese electronics giant Sharp is set to offload two of its manufacturing plants, shedding thousands more jobs than was originally feared, according to the latest reports from Tokyo.… |
| India shutters sites and social media accounts Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:37 PM PDT Pakistan suspected of spreading rumours inciting sectarian violenceIndia's government is blocking up to 250 web sites and social media accounts as part of on-going efforts to arrest the spread of damaging rumours which it believes are designed to incite sectarian violence.… |
| Facebook sued by Chinese firm over Timeline Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:06 PM PDT Cubic Network got there three years soonerChinese web firm Cubic Network is set to sue Facebook for nicking the idea and name behind its Timeline feature, after being prompted to do so by some friendly US lawyers.… |
| Work for the military? Don't be evil, says ethicist Posted: 20 Aug 2012 06:00 PM PDT Engineers should 'Just Say No' to working on drones, philosopher saysEngineers should refuse to work on killer robots, says Australian ethicist Dr Robert Sparrow.… |
| The cooler side of the Big Bang Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:30 PM PDT Can 'Quantum graphity' (not gravity) be tested?Quantum graphity – not gravity – is a fairly recent and, as far as I can tell, quite obscure angle on cosmology, but some University of Melbourne and RMIT researchers are proposing a test for the theory, and at the same time, proposing a different model for the formation of the universe.… |
| Apple now most valuable company OF ALL TIME Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:49 PM PDT Tops Redmond's bubble-era recordApple first earned the title of the world's highest-valued company in 2011, but rumors about the impending iPhone 5 sent its stock soaring to new heights on Monday, earning it a new distinction, that of the highest-valued company in stock market history.… |
| NASA gets funding for Mars InSight mission in 2016 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:48 PM PDT Funding to delve into the depths of the Red PlanetFresh from the ongoing success of the Curiosity rover, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has awarded funding for its next Mars mission, InSight, which will drill down under the Martian surface to try and understand its geology.… |
| Melb IT tells ICANN to clear up its clearinghouse act Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:08 PM PDT Brands in GTLD cybersquat perilICANN's trademark clearinghouse guidelines for the introduction of gTLDs have been slammed by one of Australia's largest domain registrars, Melbourne IT.… |
| SHOCK: Brainwave readers work as advertised Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:16 PM PDT Put away the tinfoil hat, there's no 'brain hack' hereA little-reported (at first) bit of research presented at this month's Usenix conference makes the startling claim that consumer-grade EEG-based interface devices – like Emotiv and NeuroSky headsets – could be used to gain private information from users.… |
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